Gustavo Córdova Avila wrote:
Donn Cave wrote:
Actually the op did mention that he wanted to monitor files.
Depends. I don't believe the original post mentioned that the file is a pipe, socket or similar, but it's kind of implied by the use of select() also mentioned. It's also kind of implied by use of the term "block" - disk files don't block.
If we are indeed talking about a pipe or something that really can block, and you call fileobject.read(1024), it will block until it gets 1024 bytes.
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As was pointed out to me when I made the same assertion, he actually said "file object which is stdin" or something like that, which means the object could be a socket, a pipe, a file, a named pipe ...
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